# Bill Paxton

> He's the only actor killed on-screen by a Terminator, an Alien, and a Predator — but that trivia undersells the range. Bill Paxton built a thirty-year career on making ordinary guys caught in extraordinary situations feel completely real.

*American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1955-05-17
- **Died:** 2017-02-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Texas in 1955, Paxton moved through bit parts in the early eighties before James Cameron cast him as a panicky Colonial Marine in Aliens, launching a collaboration that spanned four films. The Texan drawl and lived-in presence made him a natural for ensemble disaster pictures — he chased tornadoes in Twister, fought U-boats in U-571, rode out Apollo 13's near-catastrophe — and darker turns in A Simple Plan and his own directorial debut Frailty showed he could carry weight. HBO's Big Love gave him a lead role as a polygamist husband trying to hold three families together, earning three Golden Globe nominations across five seasons. He died in February 2017, a month shy of sixty-two, following complications from heart surgery.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 63.4 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000200/ (@nm0000200)

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Movies, #Film Directing, #Screenwriting, #United States, #Americas

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